Moliere Quotes
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.